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    During the 16th and 17th centuries‚ when the Europeans started to come over to the new world‚ they discovered a society of Indians that was strikingly different to their own. To understand how different‚ one must first compare and contrast some of the very important differences between them‚ such as how the Europeans considered the Indians to be extremely primitive and basic‚ while‚ considering themselves civilized. The Europeans considered that they were model societies‚ and they thought that the

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    wasn’t the last. Genocide is often thought of as something of the past‚ and that the world learned its lesson after World War II. Unfortunately though‚ not only has genocide continued‚ but there currently is one unfolding in Uganda. The Lord’s Resistance Army‚ made up of rebels trying to overthrow the government‚ is mimicking the Nazis in many ways‚ and their leader Joseph Kony is following in the footsteps of Hitler. There are many similarities that link Nazi Germany with today’s situation in northern

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    The arrival of Europeans on the North American continent impacted Native American indigenous people in ways that have been discussed in written material of eyewitnesses 500 years ago‚ as well as anthropologists and historians in recent times. The science of human evolutionary genetics has now provided confirmation that the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent catalyzed a demographic disaster for Native American indigenous peoples. New evidence indicates that although the population

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    occurred between the Native Americans and the Europeans that had newly settled in what is known today as America. Some of the most notable differences were those of religion‚ political‚ economic‚ and social. These differences divided the habitants of America in several ways and formed many bonds but also brought them to many moments of conflict. When the Europeans landed in America‚ they sought religious freedom and often tried to convert the Native Americans. The Native Americans as a whole

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    foreign power‚ Native Americans are also regarded to have been subjected to significant change. When the Europeans first arrived in the late 1400s‚ they brought with them the intent of not only exploring to find India‚ but also to find gold and much more wealth. The Europeans made a mistake in their navigation causing them not to arrive in India‚ but rather what they referred to as the “New World.” The Europeans had stumbled upon the Native Peoples that occupied that place. The Native Peoples were

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    A People’s History of the United States "‚ Howard Zinn approaches his view on history in a more opinion based way. Howard Zinn beings by retelling the encounter between the natives and Columbus. Zinn’s view of this is different from the traditional encounter most historians talk about. Howard Zinn points out that the Europeans came to the Americas in search of slaves and gold and brutally killed almost all the Indians‚ who according to many other people were a peaceful people. This shows that Zinn

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    Europeans’ Perspective of Native Americans Europeans’ had an early dislike and no understanding to the ways of the Native American people. They were two very diverse groups of people that could not simply understand one another. They had different views on customary beliefs‚ social forms‚ and material traits of racial‚ religious‚ or social groups. Native Americans were people of the land and that was something that Europeans’ did not cling too due to their new technologies. You never judge a book

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    The Conflict of Europeans and Native Americans After watching the movie The Snow Walker‚ I was very intrigued by how welcoming the Native American tribe known as Inuit was to the white man. However‚ in the movie Dances With Wolves the Sioux tribe was not as trusting and welcoming to the white man. My curiosity grew even more after watching and comparing both movies as to the differences in these two tribes and their attitudes towards the white man. America Colonization Upon the European’s discovery

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    began to send their own explorers. It was a bright and positive time when leaders wanted to claim new land for their country. But‚ what of the people that were already settled in America where Columbus had been so quick to claim for Spain? These people were the real settlers of America‚ the Native Americans as they would be called later on in history. For a long time in America’s history and even up until I was in Elementary School‚ it was being taught that Christopher Columbus was in fact the discoverer

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    Europeans settle the America continent as their focus is the conversion of the natives into Europeans. The white population grow rapidly as deals is made. The westward movement push the Indian more distant from the Atlantic shore. As a result‚ the Indians land are no longer untouchable and the final invasion of Indians homeland begin with the Daves Act of 1887. There are many ways that the Europeans impact the Indians through changes. The Europeans settle in the Indian world change such as the living

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